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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Marc Wandschneider <MarcW@Lanfear.com>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:19:41 PST."
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:19:41 PST, Marc Wandschneider wrote:

> 	So, i'm trying to build 'imlib' (to use with gnome components)
> on my system. to build this, i built GTK, libgif, libtiff, and all the
> other libs it requires.

It sounds like you're doing all this by hand. The ports system would
make this easier for you. Alternatively, packages would probably make it
even easier.

Check out the FreeBSD Ports and Packages collections at:

	http://www.freebsd.org/ports/

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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